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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 1235328" data-attributes="member: 9410">Poison is neither Good nor Evil.  Like other liquids and pastes, it is unaligned.Using poison, generally, is evil, because it is used to murder.  Murder is wrong, regardless of circumstances.Using poison on someone you're going to kill in combat, anyway, may not be evil, but it's also neither good nor the real point...  If the PCs start using poison to kill their enemies, then it will be "too easy", XP will roll in, and they will level too fast, without really earning it.  Making poison use an "Evil" act helps keep it under control.I rarely ever use poison, although I have often wanted some paralytic or catatonia-inducing poison with which I could disable opponents without killing them...  I have never gotten it, though.Once, a RQ Barbarian did use poison, however, despite the GM's objections...  He was going to fight a nest of giant spiders, and figured "If they're going to use it against me, I don't see why I can't use it against them!"If you're going to let PCs use poison, the common folk should rightly fear them.  Let their enemies have it, too, and cut the XP for everything else by about 20.  Then let the "dishonorable" PCs rack up Infamy, and watch their acts and alignment...</blockquote>